Re: Win keys not working in console (2.4.x)

[Jorge Nerin <comandante@zaralinux.com>]

Guest section DW wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:33:34PM +0200, Jorge Nerin wrote:
> 
> 
>> Hello, good work with 2.4.x, but I miss one thing. in early 2.3.x the MS 
>> keys, you know, two flags and one "properties" key worked as navigation 
>> keys in the console.
>> 
>> The flags get you to the "left" or "rigth" virtual console, and the 
>> "properties" key put you on the last console you where before.
>> 
>> This was very useful when working in the console, I use the console 
>> sometimes, and I miss these feature.
> 
> 
> (i) Find out what key codes these keys generate.
> Vaguely I seem to recall that I made these keys produce 125, 126, 127.
> (the test command is "showkey")
> 
> (ii) Use loadkeys to assign functions to keys.
> For example,
> % loadkeys
> keycode 125 = Incr_Console
> keycode 126 = Decr_Console
> keycode 127 = Last_Console
> ^D
> should give you the desired behaviour.
> Perhaps you lost some settings during an upgrade.
> 
> See loadkeys(1) and keytables(5).

Oh, thanks, as you say I should have lost it in an upgrade, don't know 
how. I thougth it was a kernel issue, sorry. :(

Thanks.

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Jorge Nerin
<comandante@zaralinux.com>